Collected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll Victoria Adukwei Bulley Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal

Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours when Sleep (the thief who nightly steals your brain) is hard to come by

Another: ‘plums / so prolific they colour out / the leaves’

At only 234 pages (bilingual)

Mancunia is both a real and an unreal city

Collected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll Victoria Adukwei Bulley Grace Nichols explores those nocturnalIn this career defining book, the poems of Dennis ODriscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was made by ODriscoll himself before his death in 2012 and includes revised, authoritative versions of some older poems as well as thirtythree hitherto uncollected: the definitive poetic ouevre. Cover image: Martin Gale, Stranger Here (oil on canvas, 2015).